The United States should legalize the sale of human organs

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“Dirty Pretty Things” and the Law: Curing the Organ Shortage & Health Care Crises in America. Transplant professionals are increasingly pushing to legalize the outright sale of human organs from living donors. This movement is gaining momentum and is likely to garner the necessary support of policymakers to amend NOTA to allow the exchange of human organs for valuable consideration. If such exchange is permitted, this Article posits that living organ donors should be able to receive only non-cash consideration in exchange for their organs—specifically, life-long, comprehensive health care. This would minimize the health care crisis in the United States and continue to prevent the exploitation of poor Americans. This proposal would also effectively reduce the number of deaths in the United States due to the organ shortage while simultaneously reducing the number of deaths caused by the lack of adequate health care. To advance such a proposal, NOTA must be amended to allow for an exchange of human organs for the valuable consideration of life-long, comprehensive health care.

Organs for Sale: Bioethics, Neoliberalism, and Public Moral Deliberation (Book)

Is it ever right to buy or sell organs?

Substantial Gap Exists Between Demand for Organ Transplants in U.S. and Number of Transplants Performed; New Report Offers Ethical, Regulatory, and Policy Framework for Research to Increase Quantity & Quality of Organs For Transplantation, Save Lives

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The Case for Legal Organ Sales

Legalizing the sale of human organs: A viable option to alleviate the organ

shortage in the United States.

Let People Sell Their Organs

Lawuit highlights the case for legalizing organ sales

Why Legalizing Organ Sales Would Help Saves Lives, End Violence

BLACK MARKET BODIES: HOW LEGALIZING THE SALE OF HUMAN ORGANS COULD SAVE LIVES

Why Selling Kidneys Should Be Legal

ORGAN SHOPPING: WHY SELLING OUR BODIES MAY ACTUALLY BE A GOOD IDEA

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The Ban on Organ Sales Is Killing People. It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

Gifts of the Heart… and Other Tissues: Legalizing
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the Sale of Human Organs and Tissues

Commodification Arguments for the Legal Prohibition of Organ Sale.. The conclusion is that although commodification is a useful ethical concept and although commodification arguments may sometimes be successful, the commodification argument against organ sale is not persuasive. This is not to say, though, that there are no arguments for prohibition – simply that this particular justificatory strategy is flawed.

Give supply and demand a chance: Legalize organ sales

Markets and Morals: The Case for Organ Sales

Thinking the Unthinkable Buying and Selling Human Organs

The Advantages of Legalizing the Sale of Human Organs for Transplant

Cash for Kidneys: The Case for a Market for Organs

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‘Kidney for sale’: Iran has a legal market for the organs, but the system doesn’t always work

Legalizing Trafficking: Iran’s Unjust Organ Market and Why Legal Selling of Organs Should Not be The Resolve

Our Body Parts should be for sale

Kidneys for Sale: Iran’s Trade in Organs

Organ Trafficking General

International Organ Terafficking